Aprika’s Mission Control: Managing projects over the Cloud
A great choice for high-level management
Chiefly, Mission Control Salesforce helps firms stay on top of projects, meet deadlines, and preserve favorable consumer perception. To that end, it features automated app-based enhancements for consistency facilitates meticulous planning, progress tracking, and reorientation.
For the most part, the integration of MC is aimed at maxing out on process efficiency and is built natively over Salesforce and came from the humble back-office beginnings of a spreadsheet.
Now, it’s like the one tabular view to rule them all.
Overall, the plugin drives improved operational insight, procedural visibility.
Why would you need this?
Short answer – to solve the perennial busy work problem, and spend less time in housekeeping and administrative tasks. So it follows, that like any business, you’ll want a virtual resource expansion by freeing up work personnel hours from these tasks.
Then, you’ll want to view resource allocations and project objectives in the same space for easier interventions and visibility.
On the whole, that is what MC’s meant for too. It lets enterprises track performances enterprise-wide, within teams, and amongst individuals.
A quick look at the primary Objects in Mission Control
Role
This is a record for a person considered as a resource for an individual project. For one thing, you may assign individuals to skills, teams, and calendar holidays.
Project
Under this, we have milestones, which are groupings of individual responsibilities or actions deliverable under a project.
Even more, users can manage contributors, checklist items, and time logs for these actions.
Then, you have expenses, risk, and invoice billing events calculated against tax rates stored in Records, and payment collections.
Additionally, from within the MC console, you can view, clone, and reschedule these. Furthermore, you can create new projects and assign milestones to them.
Capabilities of note
Forecasts and Visualizations
Quick launch access to key actions, milestones, revenue projections, and costs.
Resource and Time Allocation
For faster decisions in rushed environments on resource assignments and stick to them without hurting yourself or the bottom line. Mostly, you can rely on timesheet logging to keep tabs on billed hours, upcoming holidays, and account for bottlenecks at any time.
Command Center controls and launch
Besides granular control, teams may need to launch full-scale projects with just a few clicks and keystrokes. That’s where the console comes in.
Most importantly, the console gives you access to all of the free parts of Mission Control and acts as a doorway to all of its tools.
For instance, the console lets you launch the scheduler, create roles, access timesheets, look at task progress in the Kanban whiteboard, and view expense logs, all from within it.
Should-costing, Project Scoping
These help you keep project estimates from ballooning with enterprise-wide expense visibility.
You can use the Project Overview feature to get 360-degree views of the project for users to probe into once you navigate to the Project Details pane that holds the risk matrix, timesheets, expenses, and billed invoices and line items.
Project visualizations are broken down into tabs with related key charts in them, besides views of milestones, actions, and checklists to tick off.
A whiteboard sticky note
The whiteboard lets you filter views and also track progress across Kanban-style swimlanes that support drag-and-drop sticky notes.
Also, you can’t go wrong with Chatter feed over some Kanban.
That’s right, you can pour over swimlanes with teammates to talk project progress.
Advantages of Mission Control Salesforce
Finally, we leave you with some of Mission Controls’ best-known advantages to consider for future projects.
- Scalable project and budget management.
- Molds into diverse service styles, contract types, and verticals.
It helps your teams stay in control.
- MC lets you track and assess projections
- Allowance for multiple project views like row-wise views, Kanban, Gantt chart
- Pre-built project templates
- Project discussions over Chatter
- Project logging and timesheet approvals
- Skill-based task assignment
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